Sunday, February 26, 2012

I've had some requests to make the transparency of the widgets to be configurable, unfortunately after many attempts.. it just does not seem possible. I took a look at the existing widgets and noticed that the transparency is set pretty low, so I increased that a bit and made the text colors much more readable. I also added a new 4x4 widget that is mostly transparent.

NOTE: Once this update is released, you will need to readd widgets to your desktop in order for them to work properly.

Here are some screenshots I took with all the widgets loaded up on a tablet (10in screen).

Saturday, February 25, 2012

The skinning system itself is done, so now I'm making the remaining changes I have planned to the UI before actually creating new skins. Here is one of the changes.

The tags displayed in now playing can be customized much more than before. Before there was only the option to turn on/off the 6 tags (artist, album, track, genre, file, folder). 1.2 will introduce the ability to choose what you want to display, and in what order.

The displayed tags option will now open a sub menu.

There are now 6 "slots" that can be customized to show 1 of 15 different tags (2 are combinations of track name and position or track number). This way you can reorder the tags to get it to look exactly how you want.

There is also a new option to switch between showing icons before the tags, text, or nothing at all.

New tag options are as follows:
Year
Track Number
Playlist Position
Track and Position
Track and Track Number
Quality
Album Artist
Disc Number
Next Track

Sunday, February 19, 2012

I put up a poll in the forums for those to pick a color theme for me to concentrate on first. I have the actual skinning system mostly coded, so if anyone has any preferences on colors.. vote so I will know which ones to work on first

Wednesday, February 8, 2012

I know I said 1.1.13 was going to be the last patch for bit but some other bugs popped up that I had to fix.

Changelog
1.1.15 (02/09/2012):-Fixed remote/headset controls in ICS-Fixed crash when selecting 'toggle after current' for the single button action-Sped up multi folder album scan-Multi folder album scanner option is now enabled by default-Updated german translation

1.1.14 (02/06/2012):-Fixed the multi-folder album option in the scanner (1.1.13 broke it)

Sunday, February 5, 2012

This should be the last patch of the 1.1.x line. I will begin working on 1.2 which will focus on UI changes. 1.2 will add different color themes of the current skin and some other UI modifications like showing more metadata on the now playing view.

Since 1.2 will be a major update, there will be a beta version available in the forums at some point before anything new gets pushed to the market.

Changelog:
1.1.13 (02/05/2012):-Scanning a folder from the browser file will now update songs already in the database instead of skipping them-Reduced memory usage by the scanner-Increased scanner speed-Added stop after current song to the gesture action list-If shuffle playlist is on, playing an artist, album, genre, or playlist will start with a random song position instead of the first. Playing a folder will still start with the first file found-Fixed issue where keyboard would not show up in the search view

Friday, February 3, 2012

There was a major bug which caused tracks to constantly skip if you had crossfade and eq enabled and you manually changed tracks. So this update has a fix for that. I also made an attempt at fixing some of the random force closes / application not responding issues. It is unclear whether my changes will have any effect.

1.1.12 (02/03/2012):-Fixed issue where the default sort order for an album would ignore disc number-Fixed issue where changing tracks with crossfade and the EQ enabled would cause the rest of the playlist to skip-Adjusted size of the equalizer preset spinner in landscape mode so it is easier to press -Made some thread safety tweaks to the audioengine to increase stability-Other minor bugfixes